Seriously, though, what is a photo?
Google Photos’ new AI tools are as complicated and messy as a memoryGoogle Photos VP Shimrit Ben-Yair sat down with us to talk about the new tools coming with the Pixel 8 — and where the line is between ‘acceptable’ and ‘too much’ when it comes to AI.a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview.A significant part of the Pixel 8 Pro’s AI magic happens in Google Photos.
None of these are particularly new photo editing techniques, but as Ben-Yair puts it, they haven’t been accessible to just anyone. “All these features are using AI and ML to do what otherwise would have been very technical and laborious.”That’s exactly the problem with generative AI, though. Historically, there have been more barriers to convincingly changing out a sky, moving a photo subject, or replacing the face in your photo with another.
Ben-Yair also emphasizes Photos’ role as a personal image library — not a generalized photo editing tool. “This is really about user selection and user choice,” she says. The Photos team approaches these new features by asking, “What tools make sense to people, and then how do we design an interface that puts the user in control of the changes that they are making?”
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